Here at Enough, we often swap emails with interesting articles and feature stories that we come across in our favorite publications and on our favorite websites. We wanted to share some of these stories with you as part of our effort to keep you up to date on what you need to know in the world of anti-genocide and crimes against humanity work.
There Is a Country, a new book now available for pre-order at the McSweeney's store, is a collection of eight stories by South Sudanese authors. This is the first collection of stories from the new country. "In vivid, gripping prose, There Is a Country's stories explore youth and love, life and death: a first glimpse of what South Sudanese literature has to offer."
Elephant poaching levels are currently at their worst in a decade, and seizures of illegal ivory are at their highest level in years. In an article titled "Ivory Worship," National Geographic Magazine explores the importance of ivory worldwide, focusing on its use in various religious icons made and traded primarily in the Philippines, Thailand, and China, but sourced from poachers in Africa.
Dylan Kissane, Professor of International Politics at CEFAM in Lyon, France, uses the wars in the Congo as a central case study to illustrate the silencing of women in international discourse. She shows her students two videos: 'Rape as a Weapon of War in Congo' and 'Congo Soldiers Explain Why They Rape' to encourage discussion on rape as a war crime and explore why women's experiences in war are silenced.
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